if i sat on al-jazeera. it would. i mean i can't speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating. as the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine testifies to the impeachment hearing president trump launches an attack on her on social media. hello i'm maryanne demasi in london you're with al-jazeera also coming up on the program hope in chile as political leaders move closer to agreeing a plan for a new constitution a problem and a group warns people might die in dangerous and inhumane conditions in migrant camps in bosnia. and calls grow louder for

the release of texas death row inmate rodney read as new evidence comes to light in the case. begin in the united states where marie of out of it the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine has testified in the pitchman inquiry into president donald trump him out of it says she was shocked and devastated when she was removed as ambassador and said there was a smear campaign against her but while she was giving her testimony at one point the president launched a twitter attack criticizing her career and that was then read aloud in the hearing as heidi jocasta now explains. president trump has said he'd be too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t.v. and he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassador to ukraine

a woman he ousted from the post as we sit here testifying the president is attacking you or twitter. like you chose to respond will read part of one of those tweets everywhere maria on which went turn bad. but would you like to respond to the president's attack that everywhere you went turned bad. i mean i can't speak to what the president is trying to do but i think the effect is to be intimidating you've on of it is a career diplomat who served more than 30 years under presidents of both parties in a july phone call the basis for the current impeachment inquiry trump told the president of ukraine she was quote bad news and would go through some things it was it was a terrible moment a person who saw me actually reading the transcript said that the color drained from my face i think i even had a physical reaction it didn't sound good sounded like. a threat

democrats say trump's attacks on you of on a bitch amounts to witness intimidation and possibly an additional impeachment charge against the president trump defended his mid hearing tweet saying he had no intention to intimidate i have the right to speak i have freedom of speech just as other people do but they've taken away the republican's rights given of each testified she was recalled from ukraine without cause in may she'd been drunk fully accused of undermining trump she said and was the target of a smear campaign conspired between trump's private attorney rudy giuliani and corrupt ukrainian officials or continues to amaze me is that they found americans willing to partner with them and working together they apparently succeeded in orchestrating the removal of a us ambassador you gonna bitch says she still doesn't know why she was ordered home on the next plane which she was gone by the time the white house grows

security aid to ukraine and trump pressed the ukrainian president to announce investigations into his political rivals republicans say democrats have been unable to directly tie trub to an impeachable offense. the problem of trying to overthrow a president based on this type of evidence is obvious but that's what their whole case relies on they're getting with 2nd and 3rd hand information but now complicating the president's defense is this new evidence of possible witness intimidation in the form of trump's tweet that materialize before the public's very eyes democrats have tried to build up a review of on of it as a sympathetic witness and now trump himself may have helped them make that case while putting his own presidency in greater jeopardy heidi joe castro al-jazeera washington let's go live to shab returns he is in washington and so she had to

dramatic developments today around the nature of yet none of it his dismissal from her post and then also that dramatic exchange with adam schiff what's the reaction to all of this that. it's difficult to tell right now how much of an impact this is all have but it's clear that trumps tweet was actually the major the major issue of the day we knew in the former ambassador was going to say because she'd already given that private deposition which we'd all widely reported on that there was a smear campaign that the people like rudy giuliani donald trump jr and on trump himself walking straight in this in order to get rid of a shadow foreign policy could take place at the behest of people with questionable motives and the republicans were going to say look several things 1st of all trump he has the right he's the president he can dismiss any ambassador he wants not something and as you go which admitted to she's relevant she was never around you'll need ambassador when the the phone call which the democrats are basing these

impeachment hearings on actually occurred suggesting a quid pro quo for military aid. and an investigation into the bidens and then thirdly it is legitimate to have an investigation into the bidens in fact the ambassador herself said that the obama administration had been concerned as to why exactly on through joe biden son had got this plum draw but energy company that was alleged to be corrupt i mean that there are always been these concerns what's wrong if the old trump is asking for that investigation and that's where things are going to stand and you can tell that the democrats are going to be concerned but the polls haven't really been moving much it's always been 5050 pro impeachment against impeachment there were concerns on thursday off of the 1st 2 witnesses and they haven't exactly move the dial much they want exactly electrifying so this is all about humanizing it and trying to get that message across but it didn't seem to be i mean everyone seemed to be pretty entrenched in their positions anyway this isn't necessarily a huge issue outside the washington bubble we often hear in the polls people are

far more concerned about health care and the economy and an economic inequality and so on so if i was going to stand like that but then dole truck tweeted and even fox news an anchor on fox news seemed to be completely blindsided by this and he said. all of part of the live coverage this is like this is intimidating a witness and that was adam schiff point and he faux news aren't a republican that works that this is an alter in real time those are the words of fox news anchor argues yet you have to wonder from above where fox news are getting a bit on the news you about what happened today just because of the tweet not necessarily because of the testimony but maybe something's up thank you very much shavar tennessee and washington. oh another big headline out of the united states today former advisor to the us president roger stone has been found guilty of 7 offenses including lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering stone was charged earlier this year during the house of representative intelligence

committee's investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election witness tampering carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. politicians in chile of agreed on a plan for a new constitution is being described as the beginning of the end to the country's crisis the agreement paves the way for a referendum next year on the new constitution to climb down to meet demands of protesters you brought violent scenes the country streets and clashes with security forces latin america editor lucy newman brings us more now from santiago. thousands and thousands of people are now marching toward some towers italia plaza for yet another mass demonstration to keep the pressure they say on the government and the congress to implement 3 being social reforms and this is happening just after opposition and pro-government parties negotiated for more than 48 hours and finally

at 3 in the clock in the morning they announced an agreement that many see as the light at the end of the tunnel and that is to hold a referendum for a new constitution that has been one of the main demands here in chile and it has made a lot of people very happy but not everybody who's out here is satisfied many are suspicious they say they don't know whether or not to trust the politicians we even came up with this agreement and they want to see the small print of the plan for writing a new constitution and in the meantime they say they're going to stay out here on the streets. israel's military on friday to investigate the death of civilians in gaza after a strike which targeted the islamic jihad group i force it has more now from gaza. in the early hours of thursday morning 3 simple bedouin homes stood next to fields here in central gaza in an instant they were blown apart in an israeli airstrike 8

members of an extended family were killed as they slept. here from a nearby refugee camp one of the surviving children had raised the alarm after trying to pull his siblings from the rubble. i don't generally we look for bodies under the rubble for body parts everywhere we were looking for individual members of the family searching my name by name. in the hours after the attack israel said it had killed me who's been identified as a rocket commander in the military wing of islamic jihad israeli media accompanied the story with this image this man of the islamic jihad says was not one of its members his neighbors tell us the same thing they passes photos of a different man who they say belong to the demobilised palestinian authority police force. nobody could believe it resumes a simple man a p.r. employee he lived a simple life as you can see here a cousin takes us to

a nearby house where the surviving children are being looked after incredibly 11 of them survived the blast. including fara just 2 months old found covered in sand under a piece of metal sheeting. for now the children are being kept busy with everyone around supporting them but tomorrow when people go home they'll start to realize the calamity that's happened. 5 of these children siblings and cousins were killed in the blast along with. one of his 3 wives who says brother a farmer also survived his wife was killed. more than a day on here one of the things that really strikes you is the disjunct between the sheer flimsiness of the materials from which these structures were built and the power of the weaponry that came here to destroy them israel is now saying that it was targeting empty buildings it was unaware that they were occupied but one of the questions that is left open is why trying to destroy improvised bedouin homes such

as these at all. the israeli explanation has shifted from an assassination of an islamic jihad commander to an operation to destroy a structure that it didn't realize how what it called noncombatants in a statement to al-jazeera the israeli military said yesterday thursday the i.d.f. struck an islamic jihad military infrastructure india or according to the information available to the i.d.f. at the time of the strike new civilians were expected to be harmed as a result of the strike the i.d.f. is investigating the harm caused to civilians by the strike a few streets away a steady flow of mourners still comes this attack on a sleeping family has aroused anger across gaza the israeli military has yet to give a full account of how and why it happened sorry for sit out 0 dear obama gaza thousands of migrants counted on bosnia's border with croatia and living in dangerous and inhumane conditions according to human rights group doctors without borders it

warns that people could die if they're not given adequate shelter and basic services as the european winter approaches the northwestern town of behind is struggling with an influx of migrants and local authorities are calling on all the parts of the country to take their men for him home that has more. near boston is northwest city of the hunch local authorities say makeshift camps like this hour's breaking point with temperatures dropping people here are living in worsening conditions there's no electricity and not enough food or water inside tents it's freezing and many are forced to make fires to keep warm there are no facilities no toilets no place for sleeping it's a very bad situation because it's very cold the camps were set up in june after local residents protested against migrants being relocated from the city center so police bring your rivals here but now the camps are overflowing we live like animals it's a problem it's raining every day there's

a management problem here. over the past few years this area has seen thousands of arriving from asia africa and the middle east seeking a better life in europe but their presence is raising security concerns and e.u. officials fear a humanitarian crisis the e.u. migration commission says the camp is close to mine fields laid during the bosnian war in the 1990 s. it does not fulfill the minimal requirements or. not the finances. or will be provided for 8. local authorities say they will restrict access to the camps if the central government doesn't do more to read ok to migrants but aid organizations warn that could have dire consequences as if we are going to force these people to be forced to say doors that is going to lead to a lot of changes so they will need to survive in their beliefs or student food do

not have access to health care access to health care so we make sure that their health is ok but there if they're old is ok and they also don't pose a health risk for the local population with no solution in sight people here say their future is uncertain and with winter approaching they can only think of survival for healing mohammed al jazeera. i have for you going to be on the streets of bolivia's capital as clashes break out between security forces and protest as the country's deepening political crisis and after more than 6 years in an australian detention camp refugee janet specter has put chani arrives in new zealand a free man. hello there the fire danger remains critical across much of eastern australia it has of

course raised across into queens on the winds of change direction and the heat is on there's no rain in the forecast at all 35 celsius on saturday in brisbane not as bad in sydney at 21 very warm in western australia 35 celsius in perth again here the 5 danger has been raised as we go through sunday the temperature beginning to come down it will continue that down one trend over the next few days however that heat is going to work its way eastwards across australia and so the temperatures will begin to increase $32.00 cells in brisbane that could come with some thunderstorms always a concern with thunderstorms the lightning could create some new fires meanwhile in new zealand we've got to rob a dam. conditions of. those shows on their way to an auction such as we head off into sunday that one is not too bad 21 celsius and 21 and all cleaned damages fairly low up into northern japan struggling to get above freezing in sapporo equals and snow in the 4 calls rain showers certainly into central regions of all

i'm sure karen quite quickly no say bad sunday but you'll notice the rain and some fairly heavy rain working its way troels a crimp in philip taking those temperatures down so not a good day particularly of seoul at 12. the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex a to sticks and a simple. i think it was a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and so you collect data in a way that makes a represents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions to hype the pie crates and control illustrations doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people feel like i'm not small instance a sense boost truth is that anyway. our

command look at headlines now u.s. president donald trump has launched a twitter attack against an impeachment inquiry witnessed as she was giving evidence very evanovich called his comments very intimidating. politicians in chile have agreed on a plan for a new constitution and a climbdown to protest his demands being called the beginning of the end to weeks of protests and israel's military is on friday to investigate the death of civilians in gaza after strikes targeting the islamic jihad group killed 34 palestinians. now hong kong has fallen into recession for the 1st time in a decade as it remains mired in increasingly violent antigovernment protests on friday activists defied a warning by china's president xi jinping and return to the streets again in

a peaceful protest they held up their hands are asking for their 5 demands to be met by the government on thursday a man died after being hit by a brick from what police called a reisa. now to bolivia where protesters have returned to the streets demanding a democratic 100 of power despite the resignation of the former president of a morales on the appointment of janine nez as interim leader de tensions remain venezuelan diplomats have been expelled from the country and there is also a major military presence in the city of the past friday the demonstrations got underway al-jazeera correspondent to raise a bow was confronted by security forces already. made up. i was just throwing tear gas by the police on purpose this is what's happening in the middle of a plateau where people have been protesting peacefully a police officer just threw tear gas on my eyes 6 really difficult to speak very very sorry there's the protesters. those dozens of police officers here they just

threw tear gas at it right in my house 1st passed through and through. tear gas in my eyes there's been people protesting here trying to make it to the presidential palace and there's been ongoing clashes with those who are defending abel morales the people are very very angry towards the police they see him as supporting what they say is a coup against the government of the morales many of them have even told us that they'd rather have a military government than have what's happening in libya right now with the police on the streets and the military on the streets but a woman that they believe is a race is this week coming out some tweets that news published in the past where she talked about indians about what many of the people we've been seeing here protesting and talking about mama which the earth goddess and people here respect very much but we paleface live which is also the indigenous plug while people here are very very angry with what's happening in this country they say that this is a coup and they're demanding democracy they want elections right now and the big

question is and this is something that the government has not been able to happen is when are election going to take place in this country france is bracing for widespread anti-government protests this weekend as tens of thousands of people are expected to mark a year since the yellow vests movement than the demonstrators put on fluorescent jackets and took to the streets of a rising fuel taxes in what quickly became a broader revolt against president that khan's economic reforms. now it has movement has changed. it started as a grassroots protest over high fuel prices but it rapidly turned into something much bigger. a social movement over the rising cost of living and against the french president accused by demonstrators of favoring the rich over the working poor at times violent the scale of the so-called yellow vests protests shook the french government but one year on the movement has lost momentum the number of demonstrators the weekly rallies has dwindled nevertheless some young

and fresh say it's not over. lou what is it is. the universe the movement as changing the police that used to be up to 1000 people here in this runabouts even though we're less visible now we still committed suicide. patrice felipe blinded in one eye in a protest in paris he shows me the place where police fired rubber bullets at him and other demonstrators in a few seconds his life changed forever he partially lost his sight later his job but he didn't lose his determination to fight against what he calls the french system is iraq must continue and i will continue this fight until the bitter end for sure as a yellow vest and as an injured person because it's clear that this yellow vests movement have the power to shake the french republic one year on it is clear that the yellow vest movement succeeded in forcing the french presence him at all not proper to change his approach and do more to help working people who struggle

financially less still however is where the movement goes from here this analyst says yellow vests supporters of rarely agreed over the movement's aims or who should be in charge it has failed to transform into a political movement it has. been unorganized it has destroyed every last person that has emerged and it has failed to go into elections so on one side it's it has a a huge impact on the political landscape and on the other side has failed to put its mark on that landscape you know this supporters hope protests planned to mark the movement's 1st anniversary will revive their cause but he won't be easy opinion polls suggest the strong public support of bolster the movement for so long has now fallen away the new french revolution that some had dreamed of is increasingly elusive natasha al-jazeera paris. authorities in venice have been forced to close

off the iconic scent marks square is the italian city continues to experience the worst flooding in over 50 years it's been hit by another exceptionally high tide leaving the city 70 percent underwater government declared a state of emergency on thursday and allocated $22000000.00 in immediate relief funds a refugee journalist who spent more than 6 years in an australian detention camp says he is now a free man but who's documented his journey and imprisonment in a book and a documentary is now arrived in new zealand off the leaving the man asylum camp in papa new guinea after thomas reports from sydney. this there he says is finally freedom after 6 years detained in papua new guinea for trying to seek asylum in australia the iranian journalist is in a country that has welcomed him i think it's in the 1st time that i feel at them happy but i thought why you know i think it is.

more. who johnny fled iran in 2013 he got to indonesia and from there took a boat to australia as christmas island but australia to the refugees had a new policy of sending them to prison camps on remote pacific islands which was held on man is silent in papua new guinea conditions were poor some fellow detainees were murdered killed themselves or died through inadequate medical care but from behind high fences to chant he worked as a campaigner and as a journalist he became a spokesman for the refugees given to the new. one. he gave many interviews including this one on talk to al-jazeera he also wrote a book which won many awards and used his mobile phone to shoot clips for what became a successful film australia and papua new guinea have been quietly reducing the

number of refugees in papua new guinea some have been brought to australia for medical treatment and state some have been resettled in the united states under a refugee swap deal agreed with barack obama before he left the presidency others have been taken in by european countries or canada everyone are innocent and what there was then government really. not. acts of war too chummy officially in new zealand temporarily for a book there but he says. he has no intention of returning to pop when you can. i was there a city. in the past few hours the texas parole board has recommended to lange execution of rodney reed following new evidence that could prove his innocence 51 year old inmate is due to be executed in days for the murder of a woman 23 years ago but his lawyers say new testimony implicates the woman's

fiance instead the board's recommendation of a 120 day reprieve now ghosts the governor john hendren wants no judge no in the heart of texas one life is lost one is in jeopardy and those attending this vigil say that on wednesday the state plans to execute an innocent man woke up this was at my home of the yes of the it's a racially charged case a black man accused of the 1906 rape and murder of a white woman convicted by an all white jury and sentenced to die the main link police found rodney reid's d.n.a. on the victim but new evidence casts doubt on reid's guilt is this is. justice are you confident you'll get justice. well with the support and what we have yes i just have to hold on to there at ces. that's what i have to hold on to

a coworker of the victim now corroborates reid story that he was having an affair with stacy stites and they had consensual sex hours before she was found raped and strangled on a texas roadside forensic examiners have since admitted in affidavits that their estimates of the time of death could be wrong there is another bit of blockbuster new evidence that's been introduced and that is from a member of the arion brotherhood named arthur snow snow claims that wall in prison who spoke to the fiance of the victim a man named jimmy final on that final confessed that he had murdered stacy stites because she was having an affair with an african-american man read his always insisted he is not guilty i think a lot of people know the truth right now. a lot of people seeing the evidence has been of the develop over the years the victim's cousin believes him that. you know

that he is then even though mark the texas court of criminal appeals has consistently denied reid's claims of innocence in texas governor greg abbott has so far declined to grant reed a reprieve stites sister believes reid is her killer too long we've been trying to fight for justice for ronnie who didn't deserve justice at all any justice for stacy but a broader array of advocates are calling for a stay of the execution from texas senator ted cruz to celebrities like kim carr jesse in west see everyone around he says like ronnie reid's case reads family isn't just counting on the governor. a chance to fade my brother's life because he is truly innocent and we're not asking for anything special we're not asking for any favors we're asking for the right thing to be done in this case with just days to go they have asked the u.s. supreme court to stay the execution and give time to hear the new evidence before rodney reid's time runs out. and my john

hendren al-jazeera bastrop texas. more everything right here al jazeera dot com for the latest on that impeachment hearing which took place today also you can watch is on life streaming out is there dot com. headlines now u.s. president donald trump launched a twitter attack against an impeachment inquiry witness today as she was giving evidence rate you're out of it she's the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine said she felt trump's comments were very intimidating she has also questions from members of congress in relation to allegations the president tried to pressure ukraine's leader into investigating his democratic rival joe biden what would you like to respond to the president's attack that everywhere you went turned back. i mean i don't i

don't think i have such powers not movie dishes smiley somalia not in other places i actually think that where i've served over the years. i and others have demonstrably made things better. shortly after president trump responded to the democrats' accusations of witness tampering. i'll tell you about what to bring is tampering is want to go like shifty shift does a letter serve lawyers tampering is one shift as little others have witnesses does it let us speak i've been watching today for the 1st time i started watching and it's really sad when you see people not allowed to ask questions it's totally nobody's ever had such horrible due process there was no due process and i think it's i think it's considered a joke all over washington and all over the world the republicans are given no due process whatsoever we're not allowed to do anything it's a disgrace what's happening because the other big story today out of washington

former advisor to the us president roger stone was found guilty of 7 offenses including lying to congress obstruction and witness tampering so i was charged earlier this year during the house of representatives intelligence committee's investigation into russia interference in the 2016 election. and at least 2 people have been killed and dozens injured in baghdad as security forces fired tear gas and live rounds of anti-government protests clashes broke out despite influential shiite leader grand ayatollah ali al sistani calling for calm at least $320.00 demonstrators have been killed and thousands wounded since the unrest began last month those that lines the sound coming up next on al-jazeera is counting the calls but there will be more news after that in about half an hour's time.

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